v2 Chapter 923： Head to head

Since 1977, five of the first six "Star Wars" have won the North American box office championship that year. This is an unparalleled series. Now coupled with Duke's name, its appeal is natural. Metaphor.

After a long wait, in mid-December when Christmas is approaching, the long-awaited "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is finally here!

Duke put the world premiere of this film on the famous Hollywood Boulevard.

"This premiere far exceeds the Oscars ceremony."

Standing in front of the Dolby Theater, Leonardo DiCaprio looked at the long red carpet and said to Duke next to him, “Whether it’s the number of fans present or the number of guests and journalists, it’s all Oscar can't compare."

"That's right." Scarlett, who was holding Duke's hand, took Leonardo's words, "Even the red carpet has higher ratings than Oscar."

"My dear..." Duke couldn't help reminding, "It's unfair for you to compare Oscar to Star Wars."

Scarlett curled her lips and murmured, "Maybe within a few years, the Oscar ratings can't even match the MTV awards ceremony and the Saturn Awards ceremony."

Duke and Leonardo looked at each other and couldn't help shaking their heads and smiling at the same time.

Although Scarlett Johansson’s words are a bit exaggerated, they also reflect the dilemma of the Oscars.

It is an indisputable fact that the ratings of the Oscars have fallen sharply year after year.

On the whole, there are many reasons for the decline in the ratings of the Oscars. The important factor affecting the ratings is the influence of the participating films. In 1998, "Titanic" participated in the competition and created 55 million viewers. The year Duke won the Little Golden Man created an audience of nearly 70 million, which has become an insurmountable peak.

Secondly. There are too many forms of entertainment now. Who cares whether a movie he doesn’t like or hasn’t watched can win awards?

Regardless of the number of viewers, this premiere is destined to exceed the Oscars in any respect.

For the red carpet layout and venue construction for the premiere of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", from 11pm on December 10th, Hollywood Boulevard between Highland Avenue and La Brea Avenue will be closed for 4 days. road.

In fact. The annual Oscar awards ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard is only a section from Highland Avenue to Orange Land.

In contrast, the red carpet of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is 2,000 feet long, which is 2.5 times the length of the Oscars.

More interestingly, the invitation letter for the premiere of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", which Duke personally finalized, did not tell the guests the specific name of the theater where the premiere will be held, and the blocked road section included a total of 3 Theater: Dolby Theater, Laiwu Chinese Theater and el.capitan Theater.

All the guests did not know until the scene that the premiere package of the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" premiere at the same time in the above three theaters, this is the largest movie premiere ever in Hollywood. The number of guests attending the premiere alone is as high as 5,000!

The 2000-foot-long red carpet in front of the Dolby Theater is spread in a white tent. It is magnificent and looks like space. The sky above is a gorgeous starry sky made of lights. The dozens of lightsabers erected in the center of the red carpet are shocking On both sides of the blanket are exhibitions of statues of the stormtroopers, the leading actor and the characters in the bb-8, one by one, dazzling and overwhelming.

Before watching the new movie, many guests already had a deep sense of substitution in the Star Wars universe.

Although Duke and Scarlett Johansson walked through the red carpet early. But the real red carpet ceremony has just begun.

The first to appear on the red carpet are the big stars of the "Star Wars" series: c3po and r2d2. This new member bb8 also rolled around on the red carpet. Three robots took the lead and set off a small gangster on the scene.

The star who appeared next also caused waves of screams.

In this premiere, Han Solo Harrison Ford, Leia Princess Kelly Fisher, "Star Wars 7" protagonist Daisy Ridley, Daniel Wu and many other star wars new and old All members assembled.

Steven Spielberg, Francis Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Charlize Theron, Jamie King, Sofia Vergara and many other stars joined in, and even the mayor of Los Angeles came To help out, the degree of starlight shining can be described as unprecedented.

And around the red carpet, fans holding high signs for votes have also become an alternative sight. Because there are too many of them.

These people wanted to see the movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" as soon as possible, but they did not get tickets in the pre-sale, so they had to try their luck with this oldest method of asking for tickets.

There is no doubt that the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" pre-sale figure of more than 120 million US dollars is unique even in Hollywood, where blockbuster movies are gathered. It shows the weight level of the film and also created a new record in the North American film market.

On the day when the ticket sales opened, crazy fans broke down the two major platforms in the UK that opened up early ticket sales-odeon and cineworld.

The cineworld website has not recovered from it yet, and the page still says "We are experiencing unusually high load page views."

The North American website also failed to escape the paralysis. The fandango movie pre-sale platform in the United States released tickets for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in advance. As a result, the imax venue was swept away just a few minutes after the tickets were released. After that, fans who bought pre-sale tickets for the film on the website were directly directed to the maintenance page of the website.

The entire pre-sale event in Australia was opened for 90 minutes, and the imax midnight show that took the entire Australian mainland was announced to be sold out. Tickets were sold out at 3 o'clock in the morning...

The pre-sale explosion is enough to see the appeal of Duke Jia's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". Almost all media believe that this film will create a series of brilliant records.

In addition to the red carpet ceremony, Duke also asked Lucasfilm to organize many fan activities on this section of Hollywood Boulevard for publicity needs, and sent someone to visit and condolences the fans who lined up their tents in front of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Said that the party with fans is even more essential.

Recall that when the original movie "Star Wars" first met with the audience in 1977, it caused an unprecedented sensation in the world. Even director George Lucas did not predict that the movie would be such a huge success.

Lucas even went to Hawaii on the day of the release, until he watched the cbs evening news before he knew that the film had won the box office and attracted a large number of people to line up outside major theaters across the country, just to get a glimpse of the sci-fi film.

Today this scene is repeated again.

Tonight, a large number of fans gathered at the world-famous Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. For "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", they did not hesitate to wait patiently in a long line and dressed up as movie characters.

The Chinese Theater has a very important position in the history of "Star Wars". The first "Star Wars" was premiered here in 1977. Even the symbolic characters in the film, such as Black Warrior and r2-d2, are also Handprints were left on the concrete steps outside the theater.

The Star Wars premiere day is a good time for Star Wars fans. Caroline Ritter and Andre Porter, super star warfare fans from Australia, flew to the United States to complete their life-long events on the red carpet of the Dolby Theater, becoming the first couple in history to make their wedding vows here. Newcomer.

Correspondingly, Duke also became a witness to the new couple.

"congratulations!"

In front of countless camera shots, Duke presented the crazy Star Wars couple with two Jedi lightsabers, and said, "I am honored to be here tonight for your wedding. Thank you for inviting me and let me show you Surprise."

There were a lot of fanatical shouts all around. The voices were too many and too messy to hear what they were talking about. However, these fanatical fans are quite attractive, and the cosplay costumes are also varied, and Dolby Theater has become a fan in front of the theater. Show.

In addition to the shining main creative team and the rich and dazzling on-site layout of Star Wars elements, the Dolby Theater behind Duke was specially built by imax as a customized imax theater. It only took 24 hours to complete the construction, fixation, For many important aspects of work, such as screen-hanging and debugging, imax has provided sufficient setup guarantees to ensure that the first show of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is stunning enough.

After the long red carpet ceremony, followed by the routine Hollywood premiere project, Duke and the main creators accepted the on-site media interviews, and then Duke according to the pre-made plan, let people transfer George Lucas and Dai West Ridley and Daniel Wu came over.

The most special part of the entire premiere is the next event.

All the reporters looked at Duke, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley and Daniel Wu with attention, and all the camera lenses and camera lenses stared at them.

The four Duke walked up to the round console in front of the steps of the Dolby Theater, and the staff members who had practiced around shouted together.

"10, 9,..."

The other fans didn’t know what was going on, but they were very cooperative and yelled, "8, 7..."

The voice immediately spread, and everyone gathered on Hollywood Boulevard shouted in the same rhythm, "6, 5..."

The shout shook the sky, it seemed that the entire city of angels had only this kind of voice, "4, 3, 2, 1!"

As the fans’ countdown ended, Duke, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley and Daniel Wu activated the lighting devices. The two laser devices placed in front of the Dolby Theater were activated instantly, two dazzling The beam of light rushed straight into the sky, and finally evolved into the icon of Star Wars-two giant "light sabers", this red and blue light saber cut through the night sky of the city of angels, symbolizing the light and dark sides of the Force in the film Start a head-on confrontation!

The Force War broke out again, and the history of grievances of the Skywalker family began to be interpreted again. (To be continued.)

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